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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

If nuclear war breaks out, which U.S. cities would be targeted first?

Following the end of the Cold War, the world breathed a sigh of
relief when the two superpowers – the United States and the Soviet Union
– did not destroy each other with nuclear fire and much of the
remaining planet with nuclear fallout.
And for the ensuing two decades, there hasn’t been much concern,
generally speaking, about a nuclear World War III breaking out. There
has been concern about so-called “rogue” regimes like North Korea and
Iran developing nuclear bombs along with the capability of delivering
them around the globe, but as for great power nuclear war, no one really
gave that much thought.
Until recently.

Last week President Donald J. Trump
engaged in his first major combat as commander-in-chief when he ordered
the U.S. Navy – on the advice of his national security team – to launch
a massive Tomahawk cruise missile strike against a Syrian government
airbase believed to have been the launch site for the latest sarin gas
attack against rebels and non-combatants.
The attack finally put to rest the Left-wing fake news narrative that
Trump is nothing more than a lackey for Russian President Vladimir
Putin, who was quite angry at the U.S. president for attacking his
client state and key regional ally. In fact, in the days following the
destruction of the Syrian airbase, Russia and Iran issued a joint statement
asserting that “red lines” had been crossed and they would respond
forcefully to any new attacks, no matter who launched them. (RELATED: Will Russia, Iran Double Down In Syria Following Trump’s Actions Against Assad, Leading To World War III?
That got us to thinking: Would Russia launch World War III over Syria? Quite possibly, given its strategic and financial interests there.
So that leaves the next question: What U.S. targets and cities would
Russia most likely attack? That would depend largely on the strategic
outcome Moscow sought.
For example, if Putin decided to first hurt the U.S. militarily and
limit our ability to counterstrike, the most likely targets would be our
largest military bases and nuclear mission facilities. Nuclear mission
facilities would include ground-based missile silos, nuclear-armed
submarines and bases with nuclear-capable bombers like Whiteman Air
Force Base in mid-Missouri, home to all of the B-2 stealth bombers.
But Putin could also decide that it would be better to hit major American cities instead, including – in no particular order:
– Washington, D.C.
– New York City
– Chicago
– Los Angeles
– Dallas/Fort Worth
– Miami
– Seattle
– Houston
– Denver
– Philadelphia
– San Francisco
– Phoenix
– Tampa
– St. Louis
– Minneapolis
– Boston
– Atlanta
This would be devastating, both in terms of casualties and long-term
economics. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, though major American
cities comprise less than 4 percent of the country’s land mass, they are
home to nearly two-in-three Americans (62.7 percent, according to March 2015 figures).
Of those, the congested East Coast would make a far more tempting
target, given that “cities with the largest land areas are mostly in the
West and have fewer people per square mile,” the Census Bureau said,
adding that “population density in cities is 46 times higher than the
territory outside cities.”
(RELATED: North
Korea Ready To Nuke America … “World Should Be Ready” Warns High-Level
Defector Who Confirms Nuke Launch Plans With NBC News)
Very tempting targets, indeed, then.
But then striking American cities would have a multiplying effect.
For cities that were spared, residents would no doubt panic, leading to
widespread chaos and even more death and destruction. Smaller cities of 1
million, 500,000, even 100,000 people would quickly degenerate into
mayhem as the national government fought mostly to save itself – though a
strike on Washington, D.C., would most assuredly take out the bulk of
the federal government.
Even a single nuclear strike could cause widespread pandemonium in American cities that were not targeted.
In addition to traditional military targets, which would no doubt be
part of Russia’s nuclear strike plan, the largest American cities will
certainly be on the list as well.

Does Your Plan B Include a Second Place to Live If Plan A Doesn’t Work Out?

Charles Hugh Smith

We all have a Plan A—continue living just like we’re living now.
Some of us have a Plan B in case Plan A doesn’t work out, and the reasons for a Plan B break out into three general categories:

Preppers who foresee the potential for a breakdown in Plan A due to a
systemic “perfect storm” of events that could overwhelm the status
quo’s ability to supply healthcare, food and transportation fuels for
the nation’s heavily urbanized populace.

People who understand their employment is precarious and contingent,
and they might have to move to another locale if they lose their job
and can’t find another equivalent one quickly.

Those who tire of the stresses of maintaining Plan A and who long
for a less stressful, less complex, cheaper and more fulfilling way of
living.

The Fragility and Vulnerability of Highly Optimized Supply Chains
Many people are unaware of the fragility of the supply chains that
truck in food, fuel and all the other commodities of industrialized
comfort to cities. As a general rule, there are only a few days of food
and fuel in a typical city, and any disruption quickly empties existing
stocks. (Those interested in learning more might start with the book When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation.)
Most residents may not realize that the government’s emergency
services are actually quite limited, and that a relatively small number
of casualties/injured people (for example, a few thousand) in an urban
area would overwhelm services designed to handle a relative handful of
the millions of residents. Authorities can call up the National Guard
to maintain order, but the government isn’t set up to provide food and
fuel to millions of people stranded by a natural disaster or a ”Black
Swan” (unexpected disruption).
To reduce costs, supply chains and other essential systems have been
stripped of redundancies—any break in the optimized flow has the
potential to cripple the entire system. Since these highly optimized
systems work so well most of the time, we don’t really understand the
vulnerabilities that lurk just below the surface of “just in time”
deliveries and other efficiencies.
This inherent fragility has long fueled interest in rural “bug-out” retreats, a topic I recently addressed in Having A ‘Retreat’ Property Comes With Real Challenges.Where Do We Go When the Economy Falters?
For the past eight years, US politicians and Federal Reserve
authorities have attempted to repeal the classic business cycle of
growth, stagnation, recession and renewed growth. It may appear they’ve
succeeded, but the era’s slow growth has been sustained by
unprecedented expansions of debt in the government, corporate and
private sectors.
This extraordinary expansion of debt has been enabled by a decline in
interest rates. Most observers with a sense of history view these
extremes of debt expansion and near-zero interest rates as unsustainable
and destabilizing:

In other words, extending the expansion cycle by extreme policy
measures cannot actually repeal the business cycle; rather, these policy
extremes increase the likelihood that the eventual recession will be
deeper and/or longer than it would have been absent the policy extremes.
Thus we can anticipate a recession of some sort, in which
mal-investments and unpayable debts are liquidated and written off, and
credit expansion (and the consumption that depends on it) slows or even
reverses, as it did in the 2008-09 recession.
Employers must lay off employees when sales and profits fall, and as
incomes fall, sales fall further, creating a feedback loop of mutually
reinforcing declines in household income and spending.
When the music finally stops, many laid-off employees won’t be able
to find a chair (i.e. another job). Without a job, most people can’t
afford to remain in high-cost urban centers for long.
When the 2000 recession gutted employment in the San Francisco Bay Area, 100,000 people moved away.
Recent immigrants to wealthy metro areas have the option of returning
home to the village or town they’d left to seek work in the city. Many
immigrants from south of the border have invested their earnings in
building new homes in their villages of origin. When the economy north
of the Rio Grande falters, they can return to the home they built when
their incomes were high.
In China, many of the urban workers laid off in slow periods return
to their villages, where there is a source of food (farms) and a roof
over their head (the family home).
Today’s “rootless Cosmopolitans” (urban dwelling Americans) typically
lack a village they can return to in hard times. So a common Plan B is
to seek an equivalent low-cost place to retreat to in recessions.Where Do We Go When We Burn Out?
There’s a simple phrase that embodies the exhaustion and
dissatisfaction we experience when we feel like we’re on a treadmill
going nowhere that’s speeding up: Burn-out.
As Historian Fernand Braudel (and others) observed, cities have
always had a higher cost of living than the countryside—and offered
higher pay scales. Cities aggregate capital, talent and power, and while
this dynamism serves to raise many out of poverty, it can also
exacerbate wealth and income inequality.
The globalization of labor and capital combined with the
aforementioned policy extremes has deepened the divide between “haves”
and “have-nots” in many urban regions. Those who bought their homes in
desirable metro areas for $150,000 are much wealthier now that these
modest homes fetch $750,000 or more. Young people with conventional jobs
will never be able to afford these home prices, and so the time-honored
source of middle-class security—home ownership—is out of reach.
Many of those who dove in and bought a home are stretching to pay
crushing mortgages, soaring taxes and higher costs for healthcare and
childcare. They are burning out, and their Plan B is a permanent move to
a less burdensome and more fulfilling life elsewhere.Three Different Purposes, Three Different Durations of Residence
Although Plan B includes a wide spectrum of options, these three
basic categories define three different purposes for having an
alternative residence lined up, and these purposes define three
different durations of Plan B occupancy.
While the serious prepper with a “bug-out” Plan B might be planning
for the long haul, others will view their “bug-out” Plan B preparations
as a temporary arrangement—a place to go in the event of a natural
disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane, or localized social unrest.
Such a temporary home-away-from-home could be as simple as an RV
parked in the parents’ driveway, a spare room in a relative’s house or
more elaborately, a storage shed turned into a “tiny house.”
Those planning for the eventuality of a much lower income due to
recession will have a much different Plan B, as they need dirt-cheap
housing for an extended occupancy that might last from a few months to
as long as a few years.
The recession Plan B must include planning for childcare/schooling,
healthcare, employment/earning a living—all the day-to-day components of
Plan A.
The recession Plan B also has to account for the possibility that the
return to the Plan A lifestyle will no longer be an option due to
health issues, the decline of the sector of employment, or permanent
declines in household income.
The burn-out Plan B is intended to be permanent. Plan A is being
replaced by a Plan B that must provide the essentials of home, work and
community—what I call fully functional residence.
In Part 2: The Benefits & Challenges Of Maintaining A Retreat Property,
we present our framework that clarifies the trade-offs, costs and
benefits of owning and maintaining a Plan B “retreat” property. There is
no “one size fits all” solution to a retreat property — selecting and
operating one needs to be custom tailored to your own individual
requirements, resources, skills and risk assessment. Using our
framework, we’ll help you zero in on the factors that make the most
sense given your personal situation.
Maintaining a functional separate retreat residence is a
responsibility that comes with real costs and complexities. But if done
right, it can yield great returns during both good times and bad.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."